Policy-enabled mechanisms for feature interactions: reality, expectations, challenges

  • Authors:
  • Petre Dini;Alexander Clemm;Tom Gray;Fuchun Joseph Lin;Luigi Logrippo;Stephan Reiff-Marganiec

  • Affiliations:
  • Cisco Systems, Inc., 725 Alder Drive, Bldg 20/3, Milpitas, CA;Cisco Systems, Inc., 170 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA;PineTel, 184 Chemin lac de la truite, Fort-Coulonge, Quebec, Canada J0X 1V0;Mobile Networking Research, Telcordia Technologies, RRC (Room 1T221), One Telcordia Drive, Piscataway, NJ;Département d'informatique et ingénierie, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, Québec, Canada J8X 3X7;Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK

  • Venue:
  • Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue: Directions in feature interaction research
  • Year:
  • 2004

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper is based on the discussion during a panel that took place at the 7th Workshop on Feature Interactions in Telecommunications and Software Systems in Ottawa, Canada, June 2003. It presents a holistic picture on two paradigms, namely feature and policy, and their intertwining. The guest panelists brought examples from complementary areas and presented their experiences on using the concept of policy for defining features and for treating the feature interaction problem. The intrinsic interactions commonly called policy conflicts within policy-based systems were also discussed. The panelists considered methodological issues, such as the use of deontic logic and the representation of features through policies, as well as industrial applications, such as service provisioning and policy-based management applications for service bundling. They also brought out different views that reflect some disparity between the communities involved in this research.